Ruthie Pliskin
@pruthie.bsky.social
Social Psychologist @ Leiden University
New Yorkers get to make history next week. And as with all things on this particular point in history, it's complicated.
@noayachot.bsky.social masterfully presents the particular complexities for Jewish New Yorkers in the excellent long-read:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@noayachot.bsky.social masterfully presents the particular complexities for Jewish New Yorkers in the excellent long-read:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Jewish New York’s reckoning with Zohran Mamdani: ‘He’s become a vehicle for our tensions’
A tour of the mayoral hopeful’s Jewish outreach reveals an electorate fractured over Israel and grappling with his historic candidacy in radically different ways
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
New Yorkers get to make history next week. And as with all things on this particular point in history, it's complicated.
@noayachot.bsky.social masterfully presents the particular complexities for Jewish New Yorkers in the excellent long-read:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@noayachot.bsky.social masterfully presents the particular complexities for Jewish New Yorkers in the excellent long-read:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That blood-chilling threat you're feeling now? Even small ideological change away from you is threatening, shaping our cardiovascular reapinses, as we find in this Psychophysiology paper led by @feitenglong.bsky.social .
Progressive social change threatens ideological rightists and challenges leftists, as our physiological data show.
Check out our new paper for the full story – a key part of my PhD work with @pruthie.bsky.social and Daan Scheepers.
#socialpsychology #politicalpsychology #socialchange
Check out our new paper for the full story – a key part of my PhD work with @pruthie.bsky.social and Daan Scheepers.
#socialpsychology #politicalpsychology #socialchange
<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
The present study reveals how changes in public opinion on migration influence the cardiovascular stress responses of ideological leftists and rightists. Compared to stability, progressive changes in....
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September 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
That blood-chilling threat you're feeling now? Even small ideological change away from you is threatening, shaping our cardiovascular reapinses, as we find in this Psychophysiology paper led by @feitenglong.bsky.social .
The thing about norm-setting diversity initiatives? They work! See our findings on such real-life intervention among university students from a pre-registered longitudinal study employing network analysis, less by @feitenglong.bsky.social
Check out our registered report @ispp-pops.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/pops..., in which we present a four-wave field experiment combined with network analysis. We cannot make it without our social network expert @tzingora.bsky.social and my PhD supervisors @pruthie.bsky.social and Daan Scheepers!
The network dynamics of antiprejudice norms: A field experiment testing antiprejudice interventions in real groups
Individuals' attitudes toward members of ethnic and national outgroups can be shaped by peer norms within social networks. However, little is known about the interplay between such spontaneous normat...
doi.org
April 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The thing about norm-setting diversity initiatives? They work! See our findings on such real-life intervention among university students from a pre-registered longitudinal study employing network analysis, less by @feitenglong.bsky.social
Reposted by Ruthie Pliskin
An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology
openletter.earth/against-lang...
openletter.earth/against-lang...
Against Language Barriers: A Call to Protect International Education in Dutch Academia
openletter.earth
April 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology
openletter.earth/against-lang...
openletter.earth/against-lang...
Reposted by Ruthie Pliskin
Dat is emancipatie. Dat komt door onderwijs. En dat moeten we in stand houden.
March 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Dat is emancipatie. Dat komt door onderwijs. En dat moeten we in stand houden.
If you weren't sure by now that the Nazi party had taken over the US, Vance's calls to be more welcoming to Europe's Nazi parties should have helped you gain some certainty.
February 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
If you weren't sure by now that the Nazi party had taken over the US, Vance's calls to be more welcoming to Europe's Nazi parties should have helped you gain some certainty.
If you're living anywhere where far-right leaders are making surprisingly fast strides,
I cannot recommend this piece enough:
The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
I cannot recommend this piece enough:
The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
Opinion | To Obey Trump or Not to Obey (Gift Article)
The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If you're living anywhere where far-right leaders are making surprisingly fast strides,
I cannot recommend this piece enough:
The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
I cannot recommend this piece enough:
The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
After 16 months of continuous bad news, the absolute evil of this morning's news still managed to shock me: The U.S. president explicitly called for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, to the obvious delight of Netanyahu, but also of Israel's "opposition" leaders. Pasaran?
February 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
After 16 months of continuous bad news, the absolute evil of this morning's news still managed to shock me: The U.S. president explicitly called for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, to the obvious delight of Netanyahu, but also of Israel's "opposition" leaders. Pasaran?
Political hope, anyone? When are leaders go fascist, previous supporters of those leaders actually go less fascist.
See our registered-report longitudinal study, led by @shirahebelsela.bsky.social, Lee Aldar, and @taloharel.bsky.social, with Boaz Hameiri and Eran Halperin, here:
tinyurl.com/3py5n6vb
See our registered-report longitudinal study, led by @shirahebelsela.bsky.social, Lee Aldar, and @taloharel.bsky.social, with Boaz Hameiri and Eran Halperin, here:
tinyurl.com/3py5n6vb
December 20, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Political hope, anyone? When are leaders go fascist, previous supporters of those leaders actually go less fascist.
See our registered-report longitudinal study, led by @shirahebelsela.bsky.social, Lee Aldar, and @taloharel.bsky.social, with Boaz Hameiri and Eran Halperin, here:
tinyurl.com/3py5n6vb
See our registered-report longitudinal study, led by @shirahebelsela.bsky.social, Lee Aldar, and @taloharel.bsky.social, with Boaz Hameiri and Eran Halperin, here:
tinyurl.com/3py5n6vb
Reposted by Ruthie Pliskin
Does participating in collective action moralize one's attitudes over time, and if so, how?
Happy to share that our paper is now out in JPSP! With Martijn van Zomeren, Roberto González, Ernestine Gordijn, Pia Carozzi, Michal Reifen Tagar, Belén Álvarez, Cristián Frigolett, and Eran Halperin. (1/9)
Happy to share that our paper is now out in JPSP! With Martijn van Zomeren, Roberto González, Ernestine Gordijn, Pia Carozzi, Michal Reifen Tagar, Belén Álvarez, Cristián Frigolett, and Eran Halperin. (1/9)
December 17, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Does participating in collective action moralize one's attitudes over time, and if so, how?
Happy to share that our paper is now out in JPSP! With Martijn van Zomeren, Roberto González, Ernestine Gordijn, Pia Carozzi, Michal Reifen Tagar, Belén Álvarez, Cristián Frigolett, and Eran Halperin. (1/9)
Happy to share that our paper is now out in JPSP! With Martijn van Zomeren, Roberto González, Ernestine Gordijn, Pia Carozzi, Michal Reifen Tagar, Belén Álvarez, Cristián Frigolett, and Eran Halperin. (1/9)
Paper just out in JASP! Anat Ruhrman's investigation of the impact of exposure to violence in an intergroup conflict on empathy towards the outgroup, with @ericmshuman.bsky.social , Jojanneke van der Toorn, Eran Halperin and yours truly.
tinyurl.com/mrddk9zp
tinyurl.com/mrddk9zp
November 27, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Paper just out in JASP! Anat Ruhrman's investigation of the impact of exposure to violence in an intergroup conflict on empathy towards the outgroup, with @ericmshuman.bsky.social , Jojanneke van der Toorn, Eran Halperin and yours truly.
tinyurl.com/mrddk9zp
tinyurl.com/mrddk9zp
November 25, 2024 at 12:26 PM
I was angry. I wrote a thing.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...
Opinie | Nederland neemt de tactieken over die Netanyahu gebruikt om minderheden te delegitimeren
Antisemitisme: Het echte gevaar voor religieuze en etnische minderheden komt van politici die bevolkingsgroepen tegen elkaar ophitsen en discriminerende praktijken afdwingen, vindt Ruthie Pliskin.
www.nrc.nl
November 20, 2024 at 4:41 PM
I was angry. I wrote a thing.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...
Fellow social psychologists, I need your help!
Can you recommend an intro Social Psych textbook that
a. was published this decade
b. is _not_ incredibly U.S. focused
?
Or, if you can't, could you repost?
Can you recommend an intro Social Psych textbook that
a. was published this decade
b. is _not_ incredibly U.S. focused
?
Or, if you can't, could you repost?
September 25, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Fellow social psychologists, I need your help!
Can you recommend an intro Social Psych textbook that
a. was published this decade
b. is _not_ incredibly U.S. focused
?
Or, if you can't, could you repost?
Can you recommend an intro Social Psych textbook that
a. was published this decade
b. is _not_ incredibly U.S. focused
?
Or, if you can't, could you repost?
Check out our new paper, the fruit of a complex, nuanced project led by @feitenglong.bsky.social , with Daan Scheepers and yours truly:
t.ly/QK_nI
t.ly/QK_nI
Norms of equality reduce prejudice towards migrants, but only among conservatives
The Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology publishes papers that cover the full spectrum of community and social psychology.
t.ly
July 3, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Check out our new paper, the fruit of a complex, nuanced project led by @feitenglong.bsky.social , with Daan Scheepers and yours truly:
t.ly/QK_nI
t.ly/QK_nI
Hope is hard to come by these days, but is that strictly a bad thing?
Out now in ERSP: Smadar Cohen-Chen and I review past work on group-based hope to examine when it's good and when it's bad, in feeling and in function. Open access at shorturl.at/xFIS7
Out now in ERSP: Smadar Cohen-Chen and I review past work on group-based hope to examine when it's good and when it's bad, in feeling and in function. Open access at shorturl.at/xFIS7
April 30, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Hope is hard to come by these days, but is that strictly a bad thing?
Out now in ERSP: Smadar Cohen-Chen and I review past work on group-based hope to examine when it's good and when it's bad, in feeling and in function. Open access at shorturl.at/xFIS7
Out now in ERSP: Smadar Cohen-Chen and I review past work on group-based hope to examine when it's good and when it's bad, in feeling and in function. Open access at shorturl.at/xFIS7
@lhoenig.bsky.social 's groundbreaking project (the first from her PhD, with me and @dedreu.bsky.social ) is out, in JEP:G no less! See the comments for open access links.
Thanks to JEP:G, my collab. Ruthie Pliskin & Carsten De Dreu, and some constructive reviewers, our paper sees the light of day!
Honoring that humans often have multiple public goods in which they can choose to invest resources, we explore the realm of ✨multiple-public-goods provision problems✨
Honoring that humans often have multiple public goods in which they can choose to invest resources, we explore the realm of ✨multiple-public-goods provision problems✨
April 29, 2024 at 4:01 PM
@lhoenig.bsky.social 's groundbreaking project (the first from her PhD, with me and @dedreu.bsky.social ) is out, in JEP:G no less! See the comments for open access links.
New EJSP editorial team, new (updated) guidelines! See them here, and come submit your work to us!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
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March 19, 2024 at 1:32 PM
New EJSP editorial team, new (updated) guidelines! See them here, and come submit your work to us!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
10 years after participating in the Lisbon edition, I'm truly excited to attend the EASP summer school again, this time as teacher, alongside @iborinca.bsky.social. Apply by 29.2 for our psych of violent interethnic conflict workshop, or any of the other workshops, all taught by fabulous scholars.
I am super excited to announce that we are hosting the next EASP Summer School in Košice, Slovakia from 8th – 19th July, 2024. We have fantastic teachers teaching fantastic workshops. Check out and spread the word! Let's have a great time together. sites.google.com/view/easpsum...
January 30, 2024 at 9:58 AM
10 years after participating in the Lisbon edition, I'm truly excited to attend the EASP summer school again, this time as teacher, alongside @iborinca.bsky.social. Apply by 29.2 for our psych of violent interethnic conflict workshop, or any of the other workshops, all taught by fabulous scholars.
Five days left to apply to a PhD position with two of the best, loveliest researchers out there:
@leticiarmicheli.bsky.social and @aromano.bsky.social
@leticiarmicheli.bsky.social and @aromano.bsky.social
📢 Job alert!
Come do your PhD with Angelo Romano (@aromano.bsky.social) and me at Leiden on a cool topic on the effects of inequality on cooperation & competition between groups.
📝Deadline: 18 December
Please share widely!
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
#AcademiSky #PsychSciSky
Come do your PhD with Angelo Romano (@aromano.bsky.social) and me at Leiden on a cool topic on the effects of inequality on cooperation & competition between groups.
📝Deadline: 18 December
Please share widely!
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
#AcademiSky #PsychSciSky
PhD student (full-time, 4 years)
PhD student (full-time, 4 years) “Effects of economic inequality on cooperation and conflict between groups”Applications are invited for a fully funded 4 year PhD position at the Institute of Psyc...
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December 13, 2023 at 8:31 PM
Five days left to apply to a PhD position with two of the best, loveliest researchers out there:
@leticiarmicheli.bsky.social and @aromano.bsky.social
@leticiarmicheli.bsky.social and @aromano.bsky.social
Out now on Psych Inquiry is my commentary on the interesting claim by Pinsof et al. (2023) that morality does not factor into ideologies. The issue also features great commentaries by @mjbsp.bsky.social , @cmfederico.bsky.social and many others.
The Full Equation: On the Context-Dependency of Ideological Morality
Published in Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2023)
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December 13, 2023 at 1:29 PM
Out now on Psych Inquiry is my commentary on the interesting claim by Pinsof et al. (2023) that morality does not factor into ideologies. The issue also features great commentaries by @mjbsp.bsky.social , @cmfederico.bsky.social and many others.